Narrative, social myth, and reality in contemporary Scottish and Irish women's writing : Kennedy, Lochhead, Bourke, N Dhuibhne, and Carr / by Tudor Balinisteanu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balinisteanu, Tudor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--Scottish authors--History and criticism.

English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature--21st century--History and criticism.

Myth in literature.

Reality in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book offers an original interdisciplinary analysis of the relations between myth, identity and social reality, involving elements of narratology theory, linguistics, philosophy, anthropology and social theory, harnessed to support an argument firmly located in the area of literary criticism. This analysis yields a fairly extensive reinterpretation of the concept of myth, which is applied to the examination of the relationship between narrative and social reality as represented in texts b...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; PART I; INTRODUCTION TO PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CONCLUSION; PART II; PREFACE; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [296]-311) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-41493-3

9786612414930

1-4438-1620-5

OCLC:

823721057